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Patented lune 6, |899.

No. 626,50I.

J. L. MCCULLOUGH.

MAGAZINE TARGET GUN.

(Application filed Feb. 24, 1899.)

2 Sheetsr-Sheei I.

(No Model.)

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEY No. 526,50I. Patented lune 6, |899. J. L. MCCULLUUGH.

MAGAZINE TARGET GUN.

(Application mad Feb. 24, 1899,) (N 0 `M o d e l 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

' ing g and the object of the present invention UNrrlnn STATES JOI-IN L. MCCULLOUGII,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

MAGAZINE TARG-ETFGUN.

SPECIFICATION 'Olmilg part Of L'ettes Patelt NO. 626,501, dated Ju 6, 1899.

Application tiled February 24,1899. Serial No. 706,679. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN L. MCCULLOUGH, a citizen of the UnitedV States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mags azine Target-Guns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to target-guns so combined with a coin-controlled apparatus that the dropping' of a coin in the slot serves to put the gun in operative condition for iiris to provide a magazine target-gun with means controlled by the dropping of la coin in the slot and with a magazine-lock, whereby y the cartridges are normally locked against movement from the magazine into the carrierblock or its equivalent and must be unlocked by the coin before the gun can be used.

In the accompanying drawings,\vhich serve to illustrate embodiments of the invention, Figure l is a sectional diagrammatic view showing the gun and coin-controlled mechanism as constructed where electromagnetic means areV employed for operating and controlling the device; and Figia is a View of the magazine-lock, showing the parts in a different position from that seen in Fig. l. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional view of the magazine and coin-controlled device, illustrating inechanicaloperating and controlling means; and Fig. 3 is a section through the coin-slot at line mi in Fig. 2. Figs. 4 and 4 arevcrosssections at line v4 in Fig. 3, showing the same parts, butin different positions. IFig. 5 is a cross-section at line m5 in Fig. 3.

Referring primarily to Fig. l, G represents the gun as a whole, and C the coin-controlled mechanism. l is the magazine of the gun; c, the cartridges therein; 2,the barrel, and 3 the carrier-block, which receives lthe cartridges and elevates them one by one to the barrel in awell-known way. .The gun illustrated is of a well-known kind, and the ordinary mechanism thereof is too well known to require special description, as it forms no part of the present invention. Under the magazine l, at its rear or inclosed end, is situated a pivoted detent 4, the rear free end of which has a shoulder 4*, that takes behind the rear cartridge in the magazine normally, 'as in Fig. l, and prevents it from being pnshed'by the magazine-spring back into the chamber of the carrier-block. This detent 4 is upheld in locking position by the pressure of the end of a rod 5, which takes under the detent and bears on a bevel or incline 4b on the under side of the same. This rod 5 extends back into the stock of the gun and is coupled to the free end of the armature-lever 6 of an electromagnet M in the gun-stoclL` Thelever 6 carries the armature m and has a spring 7, which yields to the pull of the magnet and serves normally to hold the rod 5 pressed against the inclined shoulder on the detent 4.

vIn addition to the incline on the under side of the. detent 4 the rod 5 may have a cam projection 5 to ride up an incline 5b, formed on the metal casing of the gun when the said rod is advanced by the spring 7. Either or both of the devices described may be used for raising the detent 4. Obviously when the electromagnet M is excited and attracts its armature the armature-lever will draw back the rod 5 and allow the detent 4 to fall, so as to unlock the magazine and allow the rear cartridge to move back into the carrier-block, as seen in Fig. la. If gravity be not relied on to depress the detent 4, a light spring 4c may be employed for the purpose.

The circuit, which includes the coils of the magnet M, is designated by w and is represented diagrammatically in Fig. l.

It is desirable for reasons that will be hereinafter explained that the cartridge which is released shall as itmoves back into the carrier-block break the circuit through the magnet M and allow the rod 5 to again press the detent upward elastically, so that it may take behind the next following cartridge in the magazine and lock the latter, and this is effected by means of a pivoted circuit-breaking piece 8, the upper end of which projects upward into the path of the cartridge through a slot in the carrier-block 3. In the circuit w is a normally-closed' break adjacent to the circuit-breaker 8, one of the terminals t at the break being a spring on which bears an arm 8fL on the pivotally-mounted piece 8, and when the cartridge enters the chamber in the carrier 3 itstrikes and rocks the piece 8 and IOO this coin descends, it actsby gravity and latv eral pressure of its edge on a light-hinged wiping-plate to press the latter back and g cause a spring-terminal t2 to make contact with another terminal t3, both at a normally open break in 4the circuit w. This has ,the elect to close this circuit through the electromagnetM in the gun and so unlock the magazine; but it also closes the circuit through another electromagnet M in the coin-controlled apparatus,and when -this latter magnet 4is excited it attracts its armature m,

thus rocking its armature-lever 6i. The lower-end of this lever carries a stop-piece 6b,

which enters the coin-chute and arrests the further Idescent of the coin CZ, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1; but when the cartridge l centers the vcarrier-block 3 it acts through the piece or rocker 8 to break the circuit thro-ugh the two electromagnets, and the spring 7a of the armature-lever 6a instantly withdraws thesaid lever, and by thus rem oving the stop-piece 6b allows the coin d to fall g from the chute into the usual coffer or recepf tacle set :to receive it.

In the drawings the conductors forming the circuit 'w a-re represented diagrammatic- It may ally lfor convenience of illustration. be said, however, that the Wires leading from the lmagnet M forward to the terminals t t' will be or may be inside of the hollow casing of thegun. The Wires of the circuit leading from the gun to the coin-controlled ap pa-ratius may be in the form of acord or cable,

s-nch as those well known to electricians. B is the genera-tor wshich supplies the circuit w.

The magazine-lock may be controlled by a coin through mechanical instead of electrical or electromagnetic means, but not, perhaps,

so satisfactorily. Mechanical devices suitable Ifor this pur-pose are illustrated in Figs.

2 to 5, and these will now be described.

`Gr in Fig. 2 represents a part of the gun sfuiiicient to illustrate the vnovel features, and GX represents the special coin-controlled mechanism. As in Fig. 1, 1 is the magazine, 3 the vCarrier-block, and 4 the detent for locking the :m-agazine. In this `case the detent 4 is upheld by a spring and has an arm 4e, to which is attached an operating flexible connector 12, lsuch as a fineannealed wire, catgut, or the like. This connector 12 extends through a jointed tube 13 to the coin-controlled device OX,'where it is attached to one arm 14 of a bell-crank lever. The other arm 15 of this lever is hinged so that it may move laterally to a limited extent, and this hinged arm passes through the coin-chute 9 and plays loosely in a slot therein near one edge of said chu-te, so that the coin ZX i-n falling down the chute strikes this hinged arm and moves it by an edgewise-wedging action outward laterally, but the coin lodges at said arm. In moving laterally, however, the hinged arm 15 is put into the path of a stud 16, projecting laterally from an operatinglever 16, which projects upward through a slot in the counter or frame D. The operation is simple. Normally the magazine is locked and the gun cannot be used, but if a coin dx of the proper kind be dropped into the .coin-chute it will strike the arm 15, press it laterallyinto the path of the stud 1G, and remain lodged-on said arm l5. It the lever 16 be now pulled over in the direction of the arrowz in Fig. 2, thestud 16a will depress the.

arm 15 and, acting through the arm 14 and 'connector 12,-draw down the detent 4, free Vthe varm 15 back again to its normal position and out of `the path ot' the vstud 16a on the operating-lever. This lever has a spring 1161, which returns it to its normal position. Any kind of pull maybe used in lieu of the lever 16 for operating the device.

Fig. 4 shows the arm 15in its normal position, and Fig. 4a shows it displaced laterally by a coin.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml 1. The combination, with a magazine-gun having a depressible cartridge-carrier, of a magazine-,lock connected with said gun and controlling the supply of cartridges to said carrier, and a coin-operated mechanism controlling said magazine-lock, wherebythe latg ter is unlocked to supply a cartridge to the carrier by the payment of a propercoin, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a magazine-gun, of a magazine-lock connected with said gun, and an electrical kcoin-operated mechanism controlling said magazine-lock, whereby the lat-ter is unlocked tosupplya cartridge by the payment of a proper coin, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with a magazine-gun, and a magazine-lock connected with said gun and controlling the movement of a cartridge from the magazine into the carrier-block, of an electric circuit, a generator and electrolmagnet M in said circuit, mechanism ybetween `said magnet and the'magazine-loc'k whereby the magazine is unlocked when the magnet is excited, `and a coin-operated mechanism adapted to close said circuit when a coin is inserted, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with a magazine-gun, and a vmagazine-lock connected with said gun and controlling the supply of cartridges thereto, of an electric circuit including a gener- IOO IosA

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ator and a lockcontrolling electromagnet M,

whereby the magazine is unlocked by the eX- eitation of said magnet, a coin-chute, means -whereby the dropping of a coin into said chute closes said circuit, a coin-detainer in said chute and controlled by said circuit, and means whereby the cartridge moving out from the magazine breaks said circuit and sets free the detained coin, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination with a gun having a magazine 1, and a carrier-block 3, of a detent which takes behind the rear cartridge in the magazineand prevents it,normally,from passing into the chamber of the carrier-block, a coin-operated mechanism, and means substantially as described, whereby the payment of a coin displaces said detent and frees the cartridge, as set forth.

6. The combination with a gun having a magazine 1, and a carrier-block 3, of a detent which takes behind the rear cartridge in the magazine and stops it, an electric circuit including a generator and electromagnets M and M', a coin-chute, means at said chute whereby the coin dropped into the chute closes said circuit throughsaid magnets, mechan ism between the magnet M and said detent, whereby the magnet when excited allows said detent to fall and free the cartridge, a coinstop, controlled by the magnet M', and the device for breaking the circuit at the gun, said device comprising the rocking piece S, in the path of the cartridges, and the terminals t and t, substantially as set forth.

'7. The combination with a gun having a magazine, and means for carrying the cartridge received from the magazine into line with the cartridge-chamber in the barrel, of a detent which engages the rear cartridge in the magazine and prevents it, normally, from passing to the depressed carrier, and means substantially as described whereby the payment of a coin displaces said detent, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 21st day of February, 1899, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOIIN L. MCCULLOUGH.

,Witnessesc PETER A. Ross, HENRY CONNETT. 

